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An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

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Linda B. Nilson is founding director of the Offi ce ofTeaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University. She isauthor of Teaching at Its Best: A Research - Based Resource forCollege Instructors, now in its second edition (2003; Jossey -Bass, 2007) and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map:Communicating Your Course (Jossey - Bass, 2007). She is co -editor of Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom(with Barbara E. Weaver, Jossey - Bass, 2005), associate editor ofVolumes 25 and 26 of To Improve the Academy (with Douglas R.Robertson, 2007, 2008), and editor of Volume 27 (with Judith E.Miller, Jossey - Bass, 2009). She is currently working on the thirdedition of Teaching at Its Best. In addition, Dr. Nilson haspublished many articles and book chapters and has presentedconference sessions and faculty workshops both nationally andinternationally on dozens of topics related to teachingeffectiveness, assessment, scholarly productivity, and academiccareer matters. Before coming to Clemson, she directed teachingcenters at Vanderbilt University and the University of California,Riverside, and was a sociology professor at UCLA. Dr. Nilson hasheld leadership positions in the Society for the Study of SocialProblems, Toastmasters International, Mensa, and the SouthernRegional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium. She maycontacted be at nilson@clemson.edu.

Judith E. Miller is executive director of assessment atthe University of North Florida in Jacksonville. A former biologyfaculty member, her current teaching includes courses in collegeteaching for graduate students. In 1998 she received theOutstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher award from the Societyfor College Science Teachers; in 2002 she was named theMassachusetts CASE Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching; and in 2004 she won the WorcesterPolytechnic Institute Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr.Miller is co - editor (with Jim Groccia and Marilyn Miller) of and(with Jim Groccia) of On Becoming a Productive University:Strategies for Reducing Costs and Increasing Quality (2005).She has published and presented extensively on active andcooperative learning, learning outcomes assessment, team teaching,and educational productivity.
She may be contacted at jmiller@unf.edu .

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